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A BEAUTY fan has revealed why she regretted forking out a fortune on cosmetic treatments.
Georgia Clarke used to get her filler in her lips, as well as dying her eyebrows and having hair extensions glued into her roots.
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But now, after spending a year detoxing from the treatments, Georgia has revealed why she massively regrets wasting her time on them.
“I wish I hadn’t done it,” Georgia says.
“I regret doing it because they were not worth the money.”
Ditch the lip filler
First off, Georgia begins by explaining why she decided to stop getting lip filler.
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She explained that her lips ended up too swollen that she had to get them dissolved.
Georgia says: “I just felt like my lips had stretched, and they were never going to go back to the same as they were before, and it was a trend and I wish that I hadn’t partaken in it.”
Stop microblading
Her second beauty treatment, Georgia regrets getting microblading - which is a semi-permanent technique which enhances the appearance of your eyebrows.
The process involves pigment being scratched into the skin in fine, short resembling hair strokes by using a hand tool with a blade formed of tiny needles.
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Georgia says: “I had my eyebrows done, it was the worst mistake of my life.
“I absolutely hated them, and not to mention the ink all blurred into one and started going a really weird colour.
“It took 18 months to get rid of, I lost loads of my own natural eyebrow hair.”
Georgia much prefers what she does now to her brows which involves using beard dye, whilst getting them professionally threaded and laminated.
She adds: “I also use Regain to grow the hairs back, and then for everyday life I just pencil them in.”
Georgina explains that the microblading was a “permanent mistake” that took her “so long” and at one point she wasn’t “even sure that it would go.”
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Rethink hair extensions
Her third beauty treatment she’s ditched are hair extensions.
She says: “I had Nano hair extensions for a couple of years and they completely destroyed my scalp.
“Not only can you see how close they are to my scalp, but once I took them out I had no hair left and my scalp was so damaged.
“It probably took a year and a half of having them out for my hair to thicken and grow through again.”
Instead, she prefers clip-in extensions so she can easily “play around with her own length and volume” without “damaging” her scalp.
What are nano extensions?
According to hair website tip hair extensions don't require any heat in their attachment.
The natural hair is simply threaded through a nano ring at the tip of the nano extension before being clamped into place.
This application method reduces the risk of damage to natural hair, making it a popular extension choice.
No lash extensions
Georgia's final point is saying no to eyelash extensions.
She says: “Not only is it expensive, it doesn’t last for a long time and once they all fall out I feel like I’m missing loads of my own eyelash extensions.
“If you just take a great hair supplement, then your eyelashes are going to grow through really thick anyway, and for the extra lift that you want or the cat eye that you want, just use falsies, or individuals.
“That’s what I do and it doesn’t cause that damage where you have to regrow your damaged lashes back again.”
Her video has attracted thousands of likes with many rushing to the comment section to share their thoughts.
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One wrote: “I’m so glad that I embrace my natural beauty and spend my money on life experiences.”
Another added: “Unpopular opinion: I don’t regret lip fillers, eye lashes or having microblading for brows. They still look nice. However, hair extensions were a waste.”
A third said: “I was debating eyebrows and was thinking no, this has helped me decide!”
Customers must be protected for when it goes wrong
Businesses carrying out non-surgical cosmetic procedures, such as chemical peels and Botox injections, must have the correct insurance to protect customers when things go wrong.
The warning comes from not-for-profit campaign organisation APIL (the ) as the Government considers introducing licences for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.
“It is vital that those who carry out these treatments have the right level of insurance so people who are injured can be compensated if these treatments go wrong,” said APIL executive committee member Guy Forster.
Insurance is key
Practitioners should have mandatory public liability insurance, as well as treatment risk insurance.
This will ensure businesses have the appropriate level of insurance cover to meet a claim if negligent treatment leads to a customer being injured, APIL has told the Department of Health and Social Care.
Guy said: “At present victims of poor treatment, which can cause serious and sometimes permanent injuries, cannot always secure the redress they need to get their lives back on track because the person or business that carried out the procedure is not insured correctly.
APIL is also calling for a national register to be created so those who carry out treatments, along with their premises, are licensed.
Penalties
And there should be severe penalties for unlicensed practitioners not on the national register who carried out treatments, it says.
He said: “We see people left with life-changing injuries after a procedure has been botched.
"They include victims left with severe and permanent scarring to their faces after chemical peels and a person who suffered abscesses and their skin to die after fat injections went wrong.
“We support a national licensing system for practitioners and premises.
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"Businesses should be inspected before a licence is granted and checks should be made regularly to ensure the public are protected and they can have confidence in their practitioner.
“All procedures should be restricted to those aged 18 and over, unless a procedure has been approved by a doctor."
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